Andrew Reid (brewer)

[3] Reid spent some of his early life in India;[4] he made a voyage as supercargo on the Prince de Kaunitz, an Indiaman of the Imperial Asiatic Company of Trieste and Antwerp, in the later 1770s.

[6] Andrew and David Reid were associates in the opium trade with the merchant William Fairlie.

Working relationships in the firm became strained, when Reid began to suspect that part of the business was being run covertly.

The court ruled that a hidden distillery was being operated, and had to be sold: it was bought by purchasers from the Reid and Wigram families.

Reid then arranged for his brother David to return from India, and challenge Ross in his place.

[12] In 1790 he bought the Greenhill Grove estate in Hertfordshire–known also as Pricklers–from the family of General Augustine Prévost, who had died in 1786.

[1] She was the daughter of Delicia McNeil, whose mother Janet Ross had married John McKenzie; this was her second marriage.